Operations Specialist and Supervisor II
Ms. Duarte is a skilled archaeologist with over 20 years of experience in monitoring, surveying, and excavation in the state of California. She has experience with Native American consultation in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Assembly Bill (AB) 52, and Senate Bill (SB) 18. Beginning in 2006, she worked for the United States Forest Service in the Biology, Timber, and Geology Department as an archaeologist and as a trained wild-land firefighter to preserve archaeological sites in forest fires. In addition she is skilled in paleontological identification, fossil preparation, artifact identification and curation, and has authored cultural resources reports for a variety of federal, state, and local agencies throughout California.